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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>EZEKIEL</span>
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CHAPTER 28
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Tyrus and Zidon shall fall and be destroyed—The Lord will gather Israel to her own land—They shall then dwell safely.
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The</span> word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came again unto me, saying,
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Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Because thine <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Pride.">heart</a> <i>is</i> lifted up, and thou hast said, I <i>am</i> a God, I sit <i>in</i> the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou <i>art</i> a <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/28/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 55: 8 (8-9).">man</a>, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
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Behold, thou <i>art</i> wiser than <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 14: 14; Dan. 9: 22 (22-23).">Daniel</a>; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
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With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
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By thy great <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 28 (28-29), 42; Hel. 1: 16.">wisdom</a> <i>and</i> by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
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Therefore thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
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Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 30: 11.">swords</a> against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
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They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of <i>them that are</i> slain in the midst of the seas.
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Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I <i>am</i> God?  but thou <i>shalt be</i> a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
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Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken <i>it,</i> saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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&#182; Moreover the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, take up a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 27: 2; Ether 15: 16.">lamentation</a> upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/28/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lam. 2: 15; Ezek. 27: 3.">beauty</a>.
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Thou hast been in <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/13a" mark="a" type="E" title="Ezekiel implies that Tyrus has been presumed to be an earthly paradise; Ezek. 31: 9 (8-9).">Eden</a> the garden of God; every precious stone <i>was</i> thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
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Thou <i>art</i> the anointed <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Cherubim.">cherub</a> that covereth; and I have set thee <i>so:</i> thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
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Thou <i>wast</i> perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
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By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
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Thine <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 31: 10.">heart</a> was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
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Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/18a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB merchandise, or business dealings.">traffick</a>; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
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All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never <i>shalt</i> thou <i>be</i> any more.
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&#182; Again the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, set thy face against <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 23: 4 (4-12); Jer. 25: 22; Jer. 27: 3.">Zidon</a>, and prophesy against it,
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And say, Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Behold, I <i>am</i> against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
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For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/23a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB fall.">be</a> judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; And there shall be no more a <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Num. 33: 55; Josh. 23: 13.">pricking</a> brier unto the house of Israel, nor <i>any</i> grieving thorn of all <i>that are</i> round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I <i>am</i> the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; When I shall have <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/25a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Gathering of.">gathered</a> the house of <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/28/25b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">Israel</a> from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/28/25c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB nations, or gentiles.">heathen</a>, then shall they dwell in their <sup>d</sup><a href="ezek/28/25d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ezek. 36: 28; Ezek. 37: 25.">land</a> that I have given to my servant Jacob.
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And they shall dwell <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/28/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 23: 6; Ezek. 34: 28 (25, 28).">safely</a> therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/28/26b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB in safety.">with</a> confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God.
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